MothersClick.com To Host Virtual Book Tour for Parenting Journalist and Author Meredith O'Brien
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (PRWeb) February 22, 2007 -- Parenting journalist and popular mom blogger, Meredith O'Brien, shares her amusing perspectives on suburban motherhood and MothersClick.com (www.mothersclick.com) is proud to host the site's second online book tour giving interested readers and fans an opportunity to "meet" the author and engage in unedited and unscripted conversation.
"MothersClick is a vibrant community that's alive with the voices of real moms doing real parenting in the trenches," says Meredith O'Brien.
A Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum is is a collection of columns about the madness of modern parenting in the American suburbs, everything from trying (and failing) to keep up with overachieving parents, to trying to keep your toddler from eating out of the trash can. This collection of 76 essays is organized in five categories: Motherhood, etc.; Pregnancy, Birth & Other Bloody Things; Growing Pains; On the Home Front, and Random Ramblings.
"This book was written over the course of the past eight years, starting with when I had my twins in 1998, through the birth of my third child in 2001, through their entrance into the school system," explains O'Brien. "As I tried to become an informed parent and voraciously read everything I could find about parenting, I found that the combination of the advice of the 'experts' and the simplistic '8 surefire ways to stop your toddler from whining' made me start to question my parenting, made me think I was not only failing, but that I had no idea what I was doing."
By hosting this book tour and giving moms an opportunity to chat live with the author online, MothersClick.com is providing another resource to further engage their growing community, and also encourage the participation of moms everywhere. "We are thrilled to sponsor this unique chatroom series," said Andra Davidson, president and co-founder of MothersClick. "Meredith's chronicles of motherhood have entertained and inspired many parents for years. This book pulls it all together."
Advance praise: "In A Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum, Meredith O'Brien has given every mom something she desperately needs amid today's world of 'perfect parents' - a wonderful dose of reality, along with lots of laughs!" -- Betsy Hart, nationally syndicated columnist and author of "It Takes a Parent: How the Culture of Pushover Parenting is Hurting Our Kids and What to Do About It".
JOIN US
Friday, February 23, 1PM(EST), join the fun at www.mothersclick.com for a "live chat" session with author and mom blogger, Meredith O'Brien.
About MothersClick
Inspired and co-founded by first-time mom, Andra Davidson, MothersClick™ is a dynamic and interactive community designed exclusively for busy moms and mothers' groups. The site introduced the world's first geo-mapping system for mothers' groups which helps new and expecting moms to locate existing groups in their local areas and globally. MothersClick provides the tools and services for organizing and managing group communications, events and activities, such as playgroups and co-ops, and it helps maximize the value of moms' time spent online by sharing knowledge - asking questions and finding answers to the experiences of motherhood and parenting. MothersClick is creating the greatest online resource for collective mommy wisdom™
The company is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. For more information, visit www.mothersclick.com or email info-at-mothersclick.com. If you're a parenting author and interested in sharing your story with the growing mommy community online, please contact us.
About Meredith O'Brien
Meredith O'Brien is the parenting blogger for the Boston Herald's web site -- where she writes the Boston Mommy Blog. O'Brien is also a contributing writer to the Boston area publication, Parents & Kids, for which she sits on the editorial advisory board. She also writes about the portrayal of working moms in popular culture and media in weekly "Working Moms in Pop Culture & Politics" columns on Mommy Track'd. Her work has appeared in a number of parenting periodicals and web sites including: Chicago Parent, DallasChild, Baby Years Magazine, and FamilyMan.com. For more information, visit http://news.bostonherald.com/blogs/bostonMommy.
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